EPA Reduces Estimate Of Sediment Release At Superfund Site

DENVER (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says between 500 and 600 gallons of sediment-bearing water was released from a pond at a western Colorado Superfund site, not 2,000 gallons as the agency first reported.
The EPA released the revised estimate Friday.
The agency says a contractor was using a vacuum truck to transfer treated water from the holding pond into a creek on Tuesday and inadvertently picked up sediment as well as water.
The pond contains water flowing from the inacti